Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 June 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority

9:30 am

Dr. Keith Walsh:

I will try as best I can. As I said earlier, there is a policy and there is legislation around the requirements for medical certificates. It is this policy and legislation that the RSA implements. Colleagues who know this better than I have talked earlier about what happens at the age of 75 and onwards. It is my firm understanding that it is Bus Éireann's policy to apply the cut-off of 70 years of age. I do not know but I assume they have very good reasons for that and they are doing that based on-----